Associate Sustainability Manager
Job DescriptionIn this Associate Sustainability Manager role you will support the execution of Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP) sustainability strategy in North America by leveraging data and insights to create tools to support cross‑functional team collaboration to embed sustainability into products, commercialization, and customer value propositions. You’ll play an important part in ensuring compliance with legal reporting requirements, and making sustainability data clear and accessible for customers in collaboration with sales teams.
You’ll own execution and upkeep of assigned sustainability tools, trackers, and reporting assets and day‑to‑day delivery of sustainability support requests from internal teams and/or customers. Alongside your team, you’ll collaborate with Category Managers, R&D, Customer Marketing, Corporate Sustainability, and Legal team members to integrate sustainability into go‑to‑market activities.
In this role, you will:
- Gather, validate, analyze, and leverage sustainability and business data to support regulatory and compliance reporting requirements and customer requests, including questionnaires, product impact summaries, and documentation.
- Maintain and update sustainability KPI tracking tools and dashboards to enable accurate internal reporting and progress visibility
- Support development and maintenance of customer-facing sustainability tools and content across channels and priority segments to ensure consistent messaging and execution
- Support development of sustainability business cases and project plans by contributing basic financial and value analysis
- Apply continuous improvement discipline to standard work, tools, and processes that enable sustainability execution
To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Marketing, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in marketing, sales, product development, product management, project management, sustainability, compliance, or another related business function.
- Experience working across functions to execute product, commercialization, portfolio, reporting, or other business initiatives.
- Experience working with complex data and reporting requirements, including gathering, validating, analyzing, and translating information into accurate reports, documentation, or business outputs.
- Demonstrated project management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, workstreams, data inputs, and deadlines.
- Strong analytical, communication, presentation, and influencing skills, including the ability to translate complex information into clear, practical outputs.
- Ability to translate business objectives into action plans, maintain execution discipline, and apply data-driven learning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting regulatory, compliance, sustainability, product stewardship, environmental, or other externally required reporting.
- Knowledge of sustainability trends, regulations, reporting requirements, and/or evolving customer expectations.
- Experience in a B2B environment, with sales or commercial experience preferred.
- MBA or Master's degree.
Total Benefits
We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.
Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com
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Grade 10 / P1 - grade level and / or compensation may vary based on location/country
Salary Range: 87,260 – 107,780 USD At Kimberly-Clark, pay is just one aspect of our total rewards package, which also includes a variety of benefits and opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow. Along with base pay, this position offers eligibility for a target bonus and a comprehensive benefits suite, including our 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan. The anticipated base pay range for this role is provided above for a fully qualified hire. Actual pay will depend on several factors, such as location, role, skills, performance, and experience. Please note that the stated pay range applies to US locations only.
Primary LocationRoswell Building 300
Additional LocationsWorker TypeEmployee
Worker Sub-TypeRegular
Time TypeFull time